Next May, New Eden will celebrate its fifteenth birthday and the march will begin toward the third decade of EVE Online. As part of the focus around preparing for the third decade, the EVE development team here at CCP have been looking at updating and optimizing the EVE Online client in preparation for the long-term future of New Eden. Part of this endeavor is a review of the current state of the client and the usage of the features and utilities within it.

Hello again adaptable capsuleers! Today we are happy to bring you another dev blog covering the imminent revamp of the Strategic Cruiser (also known as T3 Cruiser) class coming on July 11th. When we last released a dev blog on this topic a little over a month ago, we covered the high level goals, some of the design direction and the start of our community Strategic Cruiser focus group.

This is the Monthly Economic Report (MER) for June 2017. The raw data and graphs that make up this report, including the killmail data, can be downloaded here (24 MB). All graphs in this report can be clicked to enlarge them for better viewing.

The EVE Online community is well known for its amazing charitable nature, despite the wars that rage in game, the vicious conflicts that erupt between alliances vying for power, and the general annoyance of being undercut on the market or blindsided when you’re travelling through lowsec. Since 2003, our pilots have raised more than $500,000 US for The Iceland Red Cross, Get Well Gamers, The Icelandic Children’s Hospital, Child’s Play Charity and in direct support of other EVE players. Over the ...

Hello ship posting space friends, I'm CCP Pointy Bits and in this blog, I’m going to go through the design process behind the new Rupture-class cruiser and talk about our general thoughts on redesigns and graphics renovation in the art department on EVE. First, we’re going to go on a bit of a preamble about how redesigns are important to the artists here. Why do we do redesigns? EVE is a vast and beautiful universe, yet it was designed in the early 2000s by a very small concept art team in a ve...

Greetings Capsuleers of New Eden! As part of our drive to overhaul and refresh the web presence of EVE Online, one of the combined objectives of the Community Team and Web Team here at CCP has been to replace the current EVE Online forums with a more modern, stable and versatile system that we can build on for years to come. We’re happy to announce that after a long and gruelling process of deciding on new emojis, liberal testing, and many, many forum posts, we can now unveil the new EVE Online...

This is the Monthly Economic Report (MER) for May 2017. The raw data and graphs that make up this report, including the killmail data, can be downloaded here (26 MB). The raw data for April 2017 can be downloaded here (30 MB). All graphs in this report can be clicked to enlarge them for better viewing.

Hello adaptable capsuleers! In this dev blog, we’ll be discussing some early information you need to know in preparation for the big Strategic Cruiser rebalance coming this summer. We’ll recap the high-level plan, give you the first of many notices about how the patch day transition will affect you, and highlight the start of our new Strategic Cruiser Focus Group. At the Ship and Module Balance presentation during Fanfest 2017 we discussed the plans for a major rebalance of Tech 3 Cruisers late...

Hello skilful Capsuleers of New Eden! With the changes to PLEX now deployed and the market now stable, today we’d like to tell you about another small improvement we’re going to be making on May 23rd, this time relating to Skill Trading. Moving PLEX towards a more granular, and ultimately more flexible design got us thinking about doing the same for Skill Trading.

This is the Monthly Economic Report (MER) for April 2017. The raw data and graphs that make up this report can be downloaded here (6 MB) All graphs in this report can be clicked to enlarge them for better viewing. This month's economic report also includes a bonus graph, charting the top mining ships for the month, along with comparisons to their use in April 2016.

Hello prudent Capsuleers! Today we will be providing some more detail about the Starbase and outpost transition plans that we announced last week at Fanfest here in Reykjavik. This blog will cover details of the next couple steps in the long-term plan of phasing out Starbases, as well as the big transition event for upgrading all of New Eden’s outposts and conquerable stations. Starbase Industry and Resource Processing Structures In Fanfest 2015, when CCP unveiled the high level plan for what w...

Greetings Capsuleers During the EVE Keynote at Fanfest 2017 (you can watch it here), we announced the results of the Council of Stellar Management (CSM) 12 elections. These were the results: Innominate NoobMan Jin'taan The Judge Aryth Steve Ronuken Vince Draken Rhiload Feron-drake Suitonia Yukiko Kami For those not familiar with the CSM, they are a player-elected representative body for the players to CCP.

Dear fellow capsuleers, Now that EVE Fanfest is behind us, it is time for a quick summary of what was discussed on the economy roundtable, along with the release of the Monthly Economic Report (MER) for March 2017. The agenda for the Economy roundtable was the following: Go over the March MER, discuss possible additions and improvements Regional Stats: Are they in or are they out? Add NPC Bounties to the regional stats? Breaking down the NPC commodity faucet by Blue loot (Wormhole loot), and Ov...

It’s been one year of Tranquility’s hardware refresh known as TQ Tech III, and that means it’s time for an anniversary blog! A lot has happened over the year. Immediately we saw that TQ Tech III was performing way better than Tech II and quickly released a blog with some metrics and numbers, which you can check out here. Now, given the months in-between, we have more numbers to crunch … so here is the same view from CCP Quant only on a larger time scale As you can see Ascension had a “nice” imp...

Greetings intrepid capsuleers! Welcome to another dev blog in which we’ll discuss further development in the rapidly advancing world of Upwell Consortium hardware. Over the course of the last few weeks you’ve heard more about the ever growing range of Upwell Consortium Structures that are on offer, as well as a little more about the next generation of structures, Refineries, which will also be arriving soon™. Today we’d like to talk about another Upwell project that will be arriving not too far...

Greetings Capsuleers, It’s with pleasure that we announce the launch of a new EVE fiction portal that will serve a central repository and resource for all those interested in learning more about the rich lore of EVE Online and the wider EVE Universe.

All is not well in New Eden, after a series of large outbreaks of the Kyonoke Plague were reported across the cluster over the course of the last few weeks. An entire city in the Caldari State has been sealed off, quarantining more than 36 million.